POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Friedrich Engels, Group Marriage, Marxism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

The overthrow of mother right was the world historic defeat of the female sex. frederich. Engels the family, private property, and the state. Mother right overthrown: lineage change instituted, mother right ended, woman becomes instrument, male lineage was instituted, matrolineal (mother lineage, partolineal (father lineage, women become the instrument of men to bread children the evidence in history. Classical greek household: paternal power, absolute power, the husband has absolute power over slaves, the wife, children, everything in the household, it was expected in classical greek times. Private property: inheritance: compulsory, of convenience, we can see that private property comes in their is a household, inheritance this makes marriage necessary, a marriage of convenience because it includes inheritance, kinship lines. Public character lost: wife"s role, he argues that production is no longer public the public character is lost no longer communal, wife"s role is of a domestic servant, women were the rst servants.